- Vitaliy Sevastyanov
Infobox Astronaut
name =Vitali Ivanovich Sevastyanov
type =Cosmonaut
nationality =Soviet
date_birth =birth date and age|1935|07|8
place_birth =Krasnouralsk ,Russia
occupation =Engineer
selection =Civilian Specialist Group 3
time =80d 16h 18m
mission =Soyuz 9 ,Soyuz 18 |Vitali Ivanovich Sevastyanov, ( _ru. Виталий Иванович Севастьянов; born
July 8 ,1935 inKrasnouralsk ) is a former Soviet cosmonaut who flew on theSoyuz 9 andSoyuz 18 missions.He trained as an engineer at the
Moscow Aviation Institute and after graduation in1959 , joinedSergey Korolev 's design bureau, where he worked on the design of theVostok spacecraft . He also lectured at the Cosmonaut Training Centre, teaching the physics of spaceflight. In1967 he commenced cosmonaut training himself.After two successful missions, including a two-month stay on the
Salyut 4 space station , he was stood down from active flight status in1976 . He worked in ground control for theSalyut 6 station before returning to spacecraft design in the 1980s to work on the Buran project.During the
1980 's he was the host of a popular television program on space exploration entitled "Man, Earth, Universe".In
1993 , he left the space programme and was elected to theState Duma in1994 .
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